{"id":31917,"date":"2025-11-07T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:40:08","slug":"girl-12-attacked-and-raped-by-stranger-in-brooklyn-stairwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31917\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 12, attacked and raped by stranger in Brooklyn stairwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops are hunting for the predator who grabbed and raped a 12-year-old girl inside a Brooklyn apartment building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/27\/nypd-opens-new-special-victims-unit-facility-in-the-bronx-amid-increase-in-sexual-assaults\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The child was inside her building on Morgan Ave. and Skillman in East Williamsburg, which is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/Cooper%20Park.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYCHA\u2019s Cooper Park Houses<\/a>, at about 5:45 p.m. Thursday when a stranger believed to be in his 20s overpowered and sexually assaulted her, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The rapist ran off after the horrific attack, and 911 was called, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the child to an area hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. Detectives assigned to the NYPD\u2019s Special Victims Unit were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD has seen a 17% jump in rapes and sexual assaults across the five boroughs over the past year, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, detectives in the Special Victims Unit were investigating 1,720 rapes and sexual assaults, 260 more than this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials said that increase is largely attributable to legislative changes made a year ago that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/01\/30\/hochul-rape-is-rape-law-ny-lgbtq\/\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/01\/30\/hochul-rape-is-rape-law-ny-lgbtq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broadened the legal definition of rape in New York State<\/a>, which now includes additional forms of sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are hunting for the predator who grabbed and raped a 12-year-old girl inside a Brooklyn apartment building,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-31917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}